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Yoga & Fitness Tips for at home

Use your valuable free time at home to strengthen your immune system. The following videos from some of the best yoga instructors, who also teach at Schloss Elmau, are suitable for beginners and advanced students.

Enjoy your practice and your exercise, and please stay healthy!

Johannes Mikenda

YogaEasy Voucher

Schloss Elmau and YogaEasy offer you a 1-month yoga retreat in your very own personal “yoga studio.” More than 1,000 yoga and meditation videos with well-known instructors await – and you can watch them anytime, anywhere. How about an activating 20-minute morning session … or a longer session in the evening? Depending on how much time you have, whether dynamic or calm, beginner or advanced, YogaEasy lets you put together your individual yoga program.

Sunrise & Sundown

Sunrise Yoga in the morning with Patricia Thielemann awaits you at the Yoga Summit from 24 – 29 May and during the retreat hosted by the Berlin-based yoga instructor from 22 – 27 November. The day ends with evening practice led by Jivamukti Yoga teacher Petros Haffenrichter at his Retreat 2021. This video offers for practicing at home gives you a first taste of what to expect. The voucher gives you one month of free access to this and all the other yoga videos on YogaEasy, to help you practice at home.

Strength & Grace

Barbra’s classes will strengthen you both physically and spiritually. Her alignment-focused yoga classes are designed to promote strength, stability and serenity. The following videos are suitable for a varied yoga practice: “Best of Basics” for beginners & “Strength and Grace” for advanced students. Barbra Noh will be teaching at Schloss Elmau again from 13 – 18 December 2020. The voucher gives you one month of free access to these and all the other yoga videos on YogaEasy, to help you practice at home.

Magic Ten

The “Magic Ten,” a Jivamukti Yoga practice invented by David Life and Sharon Gannon, offers the perfect start to the day. It strengthens the body for the day, holistically and gently, with 10 different asanas. The “Magic Ten” are an integral part of the daily classes at Schloss Elmau.

7-Minute Training

For training, I recommend – among other things – Chris Jordan’s original 7-minute workout. He created this oft-copied workout to have a set routine for every day. It is taught in a similar form at Schloss Elmau as part of the daily Fit & Active program.

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Sustainability

Schloss Elmau is located in a natural preserve and makes every effort to reduce its CO2 foot print to a minimum. For this reason, we heat Schloss Elmau by burning wood waste from the surrounding forests in our 1 MW wood chip power plant. As a backup and to cover peak demand we use our own combined heat and power cogeneration plant (CHP) which is fired by gas and generates 50% of our electricity. Our own hydroelectric power station, which has been in operation for more than 100 years, contributes another 15%.

In addition we have reduced electric power consumption by using LED lamps developed in-house and using software to limit peak demand. We dim halogen ceiling spots – which are still necessary for aesthetic reasons – to just 2% of their possible output. Plastic straws have long been replaced with bamboo straws and plastic bottles with glass bottles. To reduce CO2 emissions by transports, we only use and offer drinking water from our own high quality and mineral rich mountain source.

All our meat and dairy products are produced by farmers in our region. Food waste is disposed of in a biogas plant nearby. Waste glass and waste paper are recycled. Insulation of both hotels, which were build in 2007 and 2015 with local construction companies, exceed the European Energy Conservation (ENEV) Criteria by more than 20%. By 2021 all our cars will be powered by electricity.